Re: [Notion-devel] One question

[Nick M. <ni...@ni...>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:34:20AM -0500, kevin granade wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Domingo Gomez <gom...@ho...> wrote:
> > I agree. That's what Tuomo has always said, as long as you don't use
> > ion, it's just GPL.
> 
> Right, which is part of the assumption that he isn't "hostile" to the
> fork, but I'd be very much happier about things if we could proceed
> with a completely clear conscience regarding the license, which means
> complying with it as-written as well as as-intended.
> 
> > One related thing, distro inclusion is not what the users right now want.
> > Everybody here has installed from source and I don't think any common ubuntu
> > user want to install it anyway.
> 
> 1. I'm a user, and I DO want distro inclusion.  I'm definitely up to
> building from source (have done so on several different platforms) and
> even fixing problems in makefiles, lua, and c, but that doesn't mean I
> want to manually build from source every time I want to install the
> program.
> 
> 2. It's not a matter of whether we want to push for distro inclusion
> NOW, but whether we will ever want to do so.  If we proceed without
> addressing the license issues properly, we could end up with a lot of
> work put into a fork that will never be able to progress beyond the
> audience of technical users who are willing to build from source.
> 
> Kevin Granade
> 

Completely agree on both accounts here. Aside from the distro inclusion issues, it's also about whether users themselves will want to run non-free software. Most people I know with the skills to build from source wouldn't.

IMO branching from the last time ion3 was pure (L)GPL is the only sensible option here.

Nick